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American lawyers: one, on the "United States Uniform Laws Commission," by M. D. Chalmers, C. S. J., Parliamentary Coun sel to the Treasury (England); the other, "Notes on a Proposed General Treaty of Ar bitration," by Montague Crackanthorpe, K. C., in which are discussed certain pro visions of the Paunceforte-Olney Treaty QÍ 1897 (which failed for want of ratification by the Senate which treaty it has been pro posed during the last two years to take as the basis of a treaty between Great Britain and France. Two other good papers are those by G. G. Phillimore, entitled, "What Is a State of War in Law?" and by S. Leslie Thornton, Resident Magistrate in Jamaica, on "Praedial Larceny" (î. e. "larceny of things attached to the land or a farm"), which is a prevailing vice in that colony, and the growth of which the over-severity of the law has failed to check. The "Review of Legislation, 1901," which fills the last half of this number, is cjmpiled with the usual care and completeness. As usual, too, the "Review" presents certain entertaining bits of legal lore, as, for exam ple, the account of the two murder societies in Sierra Leone, the Human Leopard So ciety and the Alligator Society. The "plant" used by these societies consists of leopard or alligator skins "made so as to make a man wearing the same resemble one of those ani mals;" a "knife with two or more prongs, commonly known as a 'leopard knife,' or an 'alligator knife';" and "borfima," a native medicine, which is "apparently harmless in itself until anointed with human fat, when it becomes an all-powerful fetish. Of course, to obtain human fat, people must be killed, and to procure victims the notorious Hu man Leopard Society was formed." Some of

the Acts noted in R. Newton Crane's excel lent summary of our State legislation, for 1901, are possibly not familiar to many American lawyers; for instance, the Missouri statute which provides that nine out of a jury of twelve may render a verdict in a civil case, and the Wyoming statute under which a summons, writ or order in civil actions may be transmitted by telegraph or telephone. REPORT OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEET ING OF THE AMERICAN BAR ' ASSOCIATION. Philadelphia. 1902. Cloth. (870 pp.) In this twenty-fifth volume of the proceed ings of the American Bar Association, as in each of its predecessors, are printed several papers of permanent value. Besides the ad dress of the President, U. M. Rose, Esq., the Report contains the annual address by Hon. John G. Carlisle, on "The Power of the United States to Acquire and Govern Terri tory," papers by M. D. Chalmers, Esq., Par liamentary Counsel to the Treasury (Eng land), on "Codification of Mercantile Law," by Amasa M. Eaton, Esq., on "The Origin o! Municipal Incorporation in England and in the United States," and by Emlin McClain, Esq., on "The Evolution of the Judicial Opinion," and the shorter addresses and papers delivered or read before the Sections of Legal Education and of Patent, TradeMark and Copyright Law, and at the second annual meeting of the Association of Ameri can Law Schools. The more important com mittee reports are those of the Committee on the Classification of the Law, and of the Committee on Commercial Law. The next meeting of the Association—the tewnty-sixth—will be held at Hot Springs, Virginia, August 26, 27 and 28, of this year.